As both a consumer of research and a researcher, you should be able to - Understand how researchers play the role of a detective
- Provide a basic explanation of the deductive and inductive research process models
- Explain why the research process starts with identifying the research problem
- Develop a preliminary question from a topic or issue
- Explain why a preliminary question is superior to a topic in conducting library research
- Evaluate preliminary questions for their completeness and clarity
- Conduct a basic and detailed library search
- Identify and use the communication discipline's indexes and databases
- Adjust your preliminary question based on what you have found in the library search
- Glean the basic ideas from reading the abstract, literature review, and discussion section of a research article
- Track a citation back to its original source
- Describe what a theory is and its importance to communication research
- Effectively summarize and report what you have found in the library
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